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zeuszor
do the people, really want a whole lot of negative untrue stuff about them being left permanently on the board, if their children have left the cult?
well yes Zeuszor, if I may say so - of course they do! I consider myself to be one of "the people". The lies and false accusations that were once there in black and white about me and my husband on the "Dysfunctional Families" thread, and now long gone, were the evidence we could have shown our family member, if and when the right time came to do so.
Likewise, I believe the "negative and untrue stuff" found there greatly contributed to the evidence which lead to the Australian Quaker movement's decision to disfriend Dave, and the threads he created attacking them in response to that are long gone too.
It was also evidence that Joe could have re-visited were he ever to entertain any doubt at all about the group's very hardline stance toward his own family, and his own endorsement of that stance, but since that stuff disappeared, the possibility of this happening became so much more remote. Hey, do you think Jon Ronson would still have apologised to Dave if all those lies, smears and accusations had still been laid out there? I suspect maybe not.
I remember having to start a new topic in that thread called "Let the Children Speak", because of my frustration that Dave seemed to write more posts than anyone else on the "Letter to Kate" and "Letter to Sheila and any Other Johnsons/Simpsons" topics which he had supposedly created to enable our children to co mmunicate "directly" with us. That's probly what gave Dave the idea for the very repulsive "Third Party" thread created much later to encourage general cold-blooded dissection and critiquing of Sheila's efforts to remind Joe of their true connection.
Zeuszor, I thought you were very keen on protecting "evidence": can you not see the value in the evidence that existed on the JCs own forum? Personally, I have to say I would have thought it had loads more relevance in potentially unmasking Dave's true motives and actions than the details of my husband's real estate would have.